Category: Daily Life

Normal, humdrum, ordinary life. Because it can be good, confusing, epic, wonderful, loving, and weird all at once.

Money Diary, Day 3

.Reading time 4 minutes.

Day Three: Wednesday 5:30am: I bounce up a little earlier than I have been, the heat wave is supposed to break today and the two early nights have been good. I take the dog for a longer walk, enjoying the cool, cloudy sky and the utterly quiet neighborhood as the dog does his thing. Yesterday […]

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Money Diary, Day 2

.Reading time 4 minutes.

I’m going to try out this new Money Diary project for an entire month. There’s a lot that’s different for the next month or so due to the move, and getting ready for back to school, and summer travel, so a month should be a good start to tracking our time and money while we […]

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Namesake

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Lately it feels as if I’m paralleling my namesake, Jamethiel, more than ever, in terms of the level of crazy this year has held. (For those who don’t know, I’m named for the main character in a beautiful, convoluted, complicated, epic fantasy series The Chronicles of the Kencyrath. The author makes George RR Martin seem […]

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Riding Keeps Me Sane

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So much has happened in the last month it’s crazy to even try to type it out. A quick & dirty review: I went on the first camping trip of the season, over to Sisters and rode three times in two days, all on Ray. By the end of the trip, I was riding Ray […]

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Joy

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I write this with joy in my heart. A tired joy, comfortable and welcome. I set everything aside yesterday and played hooky from work (using up leave time) to spend the day sans phone and any responsibilities with my son. I can get too caught up in my goals, keeping the house clean, walking the […]

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Practice Makes Better

.Reading time 4 minutes.

Before I get into the play by play of tonight’s ride with Ray, I wanted to give my trainer Terraka a good shout out. Today I pulled a few firsts, made possible by her giving me the go ahead to ride after work once a week. I was able to head up the barn with […]

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